Finally the New Showdown mode on the way to League of Legends

Showdown, the one-on-one and two-on-two game mode used at special League of Legends events like All-Stars, is finally being added to the live game, Riot announced earlier today.

Showdown has some very obvious usefulness, having it available and ready in everyone’s custom games list can add a lot of fun to normal gaming get-togethers. This game mode is one of the community’s most requested.

This isn’t the first time the community has been promised a special one-on-one mode, though. Riot unveiled the Magma Chamber map for one-on-one and two-on-two games in 2013, specifically for the All Star event. The company promised that the mode and map was “on the horizon” to be made for the general public, only to cancel its development in January the following year.

The project was shut down for various reasons, including performance issues and negative feedback from pro players who preferred the Howling Abyss map for Showdown-esque games. Rather than addressing and fixing up the issues, Magma Chamber was scrapped, and Riot promised that Showdown would continue on with its Featured Game Mode development on the Howling Abyss, rather than as a permanent game mode in the Magma Chamber.

Riot’s canceled Magma Chamber and announced that Showdown would carry on as a Featured Game Mode all the way back in 2014. It’s 2017 now, and we’re finally getting Showdown as a custom game mode.

We’re not sure when, except for the fact that it’ll be on the PBE for testing at some point.